Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-02

4-"ho las ORGANIZED a literary
society,". j
The annual meeting of the territorial
alliance will be held at Huron Dece::,,-
Der 18th.
Mrs. James L. Fields has an article
for girls on "Dress'' in the Christmas
Wide Awake.
The Ruralist believes that Dakota
farmers should devote as much time
and attention as possible to stock rais-
lng. II it is true as claimed that wheat
IS worth $1.OO per bushel to feed to
hogs at $500 per hundred, why should
our farmers sweat and worry about
raising and selling tlis grain at so
cents? This is n practical question
Who Will answer it?
We are watching with some degree
of curiosity the efforts on the part of
the management of the True Republi-
can to compel Mr.. Dunham of the Jer-
auld County Journal, to acknowledge
that his endorsement of Judge Con-
verse tor commissioner, was from some
other motive than the one assigned by
Mr.. Dunham, viz, that he hoped that
Judge Converse might be the means of
uniting the opposing factions in tine
Republican party in Jerauld county.
First they suggested that Mr.. Dunham
should say he did it to take MIR. Con-
verse out of the Legislative race next
fall. Dunham spurned that idea, so
last week the management told Mr..
Dunham to admit that 1t was his
hope to have the "Jedge" side-tracked
that he Dunham) might have a clear
er track for district attorney next fall.
The management seems to fear Judge
Converse just little, else their lmagi-
nation you'd not have suggested those
as the words they wished to have put
into Mr.. Dunham's mouth. | presume
if the truth were known it would be
that Mr.. Dunham had not the least idea
but that the ssring" would endorse the
nominee of that convention. 1t never
once occurred to him that they would
bolt the action Of that convention and
become 'klclIers..' They who berated
in such despicable language the sup
porters of the independent ticket last
year, would certainly not bellttle them
selves by doing the same thing. But
they did. And what objection YVES
there to the convention? We have
never heard that there was single OBJ
lection urged to that or the primaries,
yet they "bolted," "and why? Because
they feared the Judge? The only rea-
son we have ever heard given for the
action OF the "bolters'' was that they
wanted an "unprejudiced'' investiga-
tion of the condition of county affairs.
From an "unprejudiced standpoint?" 2"
Forsooth. We for one would be eX-
ceedingly glad to have had ar inyesti-
cation from even a prejudiced stand
point. 1t is from neither of these that
we expect relief, but from an impartial
investigation; and it is this and this
alone that the Taxpayers demand.
N. w. AVER & SONS AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER ANNUAI.
The one thing needed to place N. w.
AVER & Sons AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
ANNUAL incomparably above any work
of its class was the names of Editors
and Publishers. This want has been
supplied in the edition for 1887, now
before us.
1t is a noteworthy fact that every
year witnesses some improvement in
this ANNUAL, either in additions to
the information contained in it or in
in the arrangement Of the matter.
Some of the changes are the result Of
experience from the daily use of il in
their own business, while others are
suggested by newspaper men or adver-
tisers, and adopted by the publishers.
The edition under review has sever
III such additions. Besides the names
of Editors and Publishers noted above,
it gives the subscription price Of each
paper, and street address in cities OF
$4,000 inhabitants and upward. 1t has
also list of all the Editorial and Press
Associations in the country, with the
names of their officers and time of
meeting. This list occupies about 20
pages. and we believe it to be the first
complete list ever published.
COMMUNICATION.
1885,.
Winter is at hands. o. McElwain
is to keep Arson Beels cattle during
the winter.-John Bartie has a new
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